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Robert Clark papers

 Collection — Box: BW 26, Folder: 1
Identifier: MSS 16497
Content Description This collection contains 14 fourteen letters written during the Civil War to Robert Clark (48th Infantry Illinois) by three Union soldiers: William B. Oliphant (6 letters) (a Sergeant in Company E, 51st Infantry Regiment Illinois), John R. Oliphant (4 letters) (Illinois E Company), Henry Willett (2 letters), and 2 unidentified letters/writings, including a leather pouch in which the letters were discovered. The letters were written primarily from Tennessee and Mississippi.The...
Dates: Majority of material found within 1863 - 1864
Found in: Albert and Shirley Small Special Collections Library

William Roberts "The Slave Stealer" screenplay

 Collection — Box: BW 39, Folder: 1
Identifier: MSS 16632
Dates: 1968-10-28
Found in: Albert and Shirley Small Special Collections Library

Mattie Robertson commonplace book

 Collection — Box: BW 39, Folder: 1
Identifier: MSS 16629
Dates: 1859 - 1863
Found in: Albert and Shirley Small Special Collections Library

Sarah Jane Robertson album

 Collection — Box: BW 11, Folder: 1 [X031589373]
Identifier: MSS 16284
Scope and Contents

Sarah Jane Robertson album, 1830's, Augusta County, Virginia 0.03 cubic feet,in original black boards with floral decorative rule, green endsheets, and lithographs. Several newspaper clippings and cut dried flowers are laid in.

Dates: 1830's
Found in: Albert and Shirley Small Special Collections Library

Armstead L. Robinson papers

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Identifier: MSS 12836
Scope and Contents The Armstead L. Robinson papers(1848-2001; 43 cubic feet) consist of audiotapes; book reviews; census material; computer printouts; conference papers; correspondence; biographical information; instructional material; lectures and speeches; manuscripts and original writings by Robinson, his colleagues and students; maps; memorabilia; microfilm; organizational and professional files; photographs; printed items, and research and topical files. Most of the nineteenth century material is in...
Dates: 1848-2001; Majority of material found in 1967-1992
Found in: Albert and Shirley Small Special Collections Library

Leonard H. Robinson memories photo album

 Collection — Box: BW 52, Folder: 1
Identifier: MSS 16772
Content Description This collection contains one photo album documenting the late adolescence and early adult years of Leonard H. Robinson from 1913 to 1919. Robinson, a Black man, was born and raised in Ohio. Robinson was light-skinned, which allowed him to be a part of the black and white communities of Marietta, Ohio, where he was raised, and his life in Akron, Ohio, where he lived for a short time. The album documents himself and his life, including pictures of his family and friends of both races, him as a...
Dates: 1913-1919
Found in: Albert and Shirley Small Special Collections Library

Maria K. Robinson Scrapbook

 Collection — Flat_Box: ViU2024-0066_001
Identifier: MSS 16842
Content Description Scrapbook assembled by African-American woman, Maria Kathleen Robinson while she was attending historically-Black college Prairie View A&M University in Texas. Maria graduated high school in 1970 and briefly attended junior college in Temple, Texas. She majored in Business Education (accounting) at Prairie View A&M in the early 1970's, pledged to the Zeta Phi Beta sorority, whose Greek letters decorate the cover of the scrapbook. Maria participated in the Blue Dynamics dance line,...
Dates: 1973-1974
Found in: Albert and Shirley Small Special Collections Library

Kate B. Rogers letter to Joseph A. Rogers

 Collection — Box: BW 15, Folder: 1 [X030899215]
Identifier: MSS 16361
Dates: 1853 June 12
Found in: Albert and Shirley Small Special Collections Library

Rotunda photograph

 Collection — Box: BW 13, Folder: 1 [X031589408]
Identifier: MSS 16084
Scope and Contents

Rotunda photograph, circa 1875, 0.03 cubic feet, carte-de-visite photograph of the south facade of the Rotunda, printed on verso of mount: J. D. Merritt Practical Photographer (at Frayzer's old stand)Charlottesville Virginia.

Dates: [1875]
Found in: Albert and Shirley Small Special Collections Library

Route 250 Bypass Interchange at McIntire Road Project, Charlottesville, Virginia, Documentation Packets

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Identifier: MSS 15464
Content Description This collections consists of Historic American Landscapes Survey documentation packets for the Rock Hill Landscape and McIntire Park in preparation for the work on the Route 250 Bypass Interchange at McIntire Road Project. The reports were prepared by Dovetail Cultural Resourse Group and the black-and-white photographs were taken by Rob Tucher.The collection include two spiral bound volumes containing the Historic American Landscapes Survey written documentation; 40...
Dates: 2010-2012
Found in: Albert and Shirley Small Special Collections Library

Harriet S. Rowley commonplace books

 Collection — Box: BW 23, Folder: 1-2
Identifier: MSS 16472
Content Description This collection consists of three commonplace books belonging to Harriet "Hatty" S. Rowley, of Utica, New York. The books are nicknamed the Books of Wisdom and ignorance in part because one notebook was titled "Ignorance Book," by Rowley, while the other two books were labeled with the following note, “Aunt Harriet’s books of wisdom.” These books hold recordings of quotes from famous authors and orators of the late 19th century, and as such they are full of "wisdom" and advice on life. ...
Dates: 1872 - 1888
Found in: Albert and Shirley Small Special Collections Library

Dr. Agnes Maude Royden letter to Mrs. Bird

 Collection — Folder: 1
Identifier: MSS 16845
Content Description This collection contains one typed letter from Dr. Agnes Maude Royden (1876-1956) to Mrs.Bird. In the letter, she asks after a newborn, discusses the cold weather, her move from Sevenoaks to London, her loss of hearing, and updates on mutual acquaintances. Royden was a British suffragist, preacher, and lecturer who founded the Church League for Women's Suffrage in 1909 and founded the ecumenical Guildhouse in 1921, which became a cultural hub in London for fifteen years.Royden...
Dates: July 6, 1953
Found in: Albert and Shirley Small Special Collections Library

S. B. Rubbell autograph album

 Collection — Box: BW 14, Folder: 1 [X031589423]
Identifier: MSS 16297
Scope and Contents S. B. Rubbell autograph album, 1909, 0.03 cubic feet, with signatures and sentiments embellished with flourishes of colore dink on many of the pages. Given the uniform style and character of the colored ink and watercolor embellishments, it appears they were executed by the same person, perhaps the owner. Some entries include postage stamp photographs of the students. Autographs from individuals throughout New England and New York, Chicago,Illinois, Lima, Peru, Tokyo, Japan, Pittsburgh, PA....
Dates: 1909
Found in: Albert and Shirley Small Special Collections Library

Mary Ruggles album

 Collection — Box: BW 40, Folder: 1
Identifier: MSS 16637
Dates: 1843 - 1886
Found in: Albert and Shirley Small Special Collections Library

Dan Rupp letter to John J. Rupp

 Collection — Box: BW 30, Folder: 1 [X032669088]
Identifier: MSS 16524
Content Description

Dan Rupp autograph letter on Hotel Vonderbank stationery signed December 11,1889 from New Orleans, Louisiana to his parents (John J. Rupp) in New York City, describing the funeral of Jefferson Davis. He mentions an African American band leading Confederate veterans. He describes Jefferson Davis as a rebel and a man without a country. He also describes the funeral as lacking in comparison to General Grant's funeral.

Dates: 1889 December 11
Found in: Albert and Shirley Small Special Collections Library

Charles Francis Russell tobacco ledgers

 Item — Multiple Containers
Identifier: MSS 15971
Scope and Contents The Charles Francis Russell tobacco ledgers (1887-1888; 0.2 cubic feet) document Russell's operation of a tobacco company. The collection contains copies of over six-hundred letters written by Russell, both to A. A. Spitzer of R. E. Lee Camp No. 1 and to other customers and dealers nationwide. Russell's "Lee Camp" tobacco was created via contract with the homonymous organization, who received a portion of tobacco sales. Some of the letters to Spitzer note great difficulty selling a...
Dates: 1887 - 1888
Found in: Albert and Shirley Small Special Collections Library

Margaret Ann N. Russell commonplace book

 Collection — Folder: BW 45, Folder: 1/1
Identifier: MSS 16712
Content Description

Women's commonplace album with about 20 pages of inscriptions, sentiments, and verse, hand-written with signatures or initials and date.

Dates: 1860 - 1866
Found in: Albert and Shirley Small Special Collections Library

Mary M. Russell album

 Collection — Box: BW 28, Folder: 1 [X032669071]
Identifier: MSS 16509
Content Description

This collection contains a commonplace book of Mary M. Russell. The first entry, signed "Mortimer," and dated Rose Mont, August 7, 1844," is a kind of paean to "The Album" itself. Book includes engraved images, verses, drawings, and handwritten entries with place names, including Virginia, Washington, and Maryland. Laid in hand-lettered piece of music, "We no more," addressed to Miss Mary Russell.

Dates: 1844 - 1860
Found in: Albert and Shirley Small Special Collections Library

Mary M. Russell Ladies friendship album

 Collection — Box: BW 11, Folder: 1 [X031589374]
Identifier: MSS 16285
Scope and Contents

Mary M. Russell Ladies friendship album, [1850], Rockville, Maryland,0.03 cubic feet, in original red boards, gilt fauna design on front, and all edges gilt. Included are several engravings.

Dates: [1850]
Found in: Albert and Shirley Small Special Collections Library

Charles A. Rutledge letters

 Collection — Box: BW 3, Folder: 1 [X031589225]
Identifier: MSS 16052
Scope and Contents

Charles A. Rutledge letters (1856-1865), 0.03 cubic feet, written while he was a student at Bel Air Academy in Maryland, the University of Virginia, and while he was serving in the Confederate Army.

Dates: 1856-1865
Found in: Albert and Shirley Small Special Collections Library

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Buckingham Female Collegiate Institute 1
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